Bird flu may be a respiratory virus, but it still spreads through ground traffic. The shoes people wear every day could ...

The threat of the avian flu continues to increase as household cats are experiencing increased levels of infections and ...

The National Academy of Sciences has canceled a workshop on preventing human bird flu infections after being told to stop ...

More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.

H5N1 — the bird flu virus — demands redoubling efforts to prevent its spread to humans. As most people know, influenza is ...

Avian flu scares the United States. Virologists fear that the virus could lead to a pandemic for humans. The alarm comes from ...

Robert Redfield, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), warned that it is "not a question ...

So far, the Department of Agriculture has confirmed a staggering 41 outbreaks this year that struck down entire egg-laying flocks in Arizona, California, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, ...

Experts warn bird flu is mutating fast. Learn the key symptoms, how it spreads, and why the risk of a new pandemic can no ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

Public health officials in at least one state are now offering money as an incentive to encourage people to get screened or ...